When comparing CloudPlayer vs Cloudist - Cloud Music Player, the Slant community recommends CloudPlayer for most people. In the question“What are the best Android music player apps that can stream from cloud storage services?”CloudPlayer is ranked 2nd while Cloudist - Cloud Music Player is ranked 5th.

Pros

Pro

Supports lossless .flac playback.

Pro

Supports a custom lock screen.

Pro

AllPlay and Chromecast support

Premium version of the app allows you to cast to AllPlay and Chromecast devices.

Pro

Protects you from accidentally using cellular data

The app has a setting that when turned on will prevent it from using cellular data so you can rest assured that you won't accidentally rack up a phone bill even if your Wi-Fi drops out.

Pro

Elegant interface

The app has a clean material design UI that doesn't get in the way. It focuses on album art to make it vibrant and throws in small touches throughout that highlight the attention to detail. For example, the color of the name of the artist and title of the album matches the color of album art, etc.

Pro

10 band EQ

Premium version of the app has a 10 band EQ with 17 presets and PreAmp.

Pro

Android Wear support

Pro

Can sync playlists across devices

Pro

Android Auto support

Pro

Updated regularly

It is developing and updating regularly.

Pro

A lot of cloud option

OneDrive, Google Drive, YandexDisk, Box, Dropbox and even Spotify

Pro

Free

It's all free.

Pro

Offline Mode

Create playlist, make offline and listen without internet.

Pro

FLAC supported

FLAC supported

Cons

Con

No gapless playback

Con

No crossfade

Con

Cloud storage streaming is a premium feature

The killer feature of CloudPlayer is not available in the free version of the app.

Con

Initial indexing can take some time

First time you start the app and connect it to you cloud storage account it will index all local and online music, pull metadata, album art, etc. At a rate of about 2-3 seconds per song the process can easily take a good while.